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Huntington's Disease News

March 18, 2024

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Huntington's disease causes involuntary movements and dementia, has no cure, and is fatal. Scientists have now shown they can slow its progression in flies and worms, opening the door to human ...
A chloroplast enzyme safeguards plants against pathological protein aggregation that causes Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. New research may have found a way to 'copy' the mechanism for application in human ...
An international team of scientists has discovered an additional potential cause of the genetic mutations that result in rare neurodegenerative conditions such as Huntington's ...
The drug valbenazine statistically improves chorea, a movement disorder commonly associated with Huntington's disease, when compared to a ...

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A new platform takes on Huntington's disease via an innovative ...

Researchers have developed a new mouse model of Huntington's disease that recapitulates more Huntington's disease-like characteristics than earlier models, providing new clues to the ...

Psychiatric and cognitive symptoms emerge at an early stage in Huntington's disease. However, research so far has mainly focused on movement impairment, a symptom associated with the more ...

Researchers have identified a new treatment candidate that appears to not only halt neurodegenerative symptoms in mouse models of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, but also reverse the effects ...

Glia affected by Huntington's disease respond by tuning down synapse genes, which has a protective ...